§ 46. Mr. DILLONasked the Prime Minister when the promised public inquiry into the circumstances under which Mr. Sheehy Skeffington was murdered in Portobello Barracks will take place; whether he can give the names of the Commissioners who are to conduct the inquiry; and whether the reference will be wide enough to include the cases of Messrs. M'Intyre and Dixon and the fate of all prisoners taken in Portobello Barracks while Captain Bowen-Colthurst was in a position of authority in those barracks, the extent of responsibility of other officers for the murders, how it came to pass that Captain Bowen-Colthurst was retained in a position of responsibility in view of the evidence given as to his mental condition, and who was responsible for continuing Captain Bowen-Colthurst in 1171 authority for nine days after he had murdered three men and after these murders had been reported to the military authorities in Dublin?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI have been in communication with Mrs. Skeffington this week, and I propose to set up such an inquiry as soon as the machinery can be settled, as to which I should like to communicate with my hon. Friend. The inquiry would be wide enough to embrace the matters referred to in the question, though I am not to be supposed to admit the accuracy of some of the suggestions which it contains.